Seriously?

You might have noticed by my incessant whining about it that we've had an abnormally cold & wet spring.  In May, we had 25 days of lower-than-normal temperatures, and double our usual rainfall.  As this is the third year in a row of really wet early summer, I'm getting used to it.  And I'm convinced that global weather patterns are changing, which is a bit unnerving though I admit I'm not sorry that we seem to be being spared those weeks of 100+ temperatures we were getting a few years ago.  Not that I was amused by the week of being below zero or anything, but I'm a knitter, so anything that justifies more wool sweaters is easier to take. 

Last night, however, Boise received tornado warnings.

Really???????????

I admit, my tornado knowledge is pretty limited (hazardous to evil witches and a possible means of relocation to a land of vertically-challenged citizens), but I rather assumed that one had to live in a flat state (Kansas) to get tornadoes.  Sort of like one has to be near an ocean to get hurricanes.  I don't know if you know much about Idaho, but one of the reasons we're in what is known as the Mountain Time Zone is that we have mountains.  Lots of the things.  Not that I'm complaining--it makes a nice view, brings tourism, and up until now I thought they had kept some of the nastier weather options at bay.  In exchange, we live with winter road closures and drive front-wheel and 4-wheel drive vehicles.  This, to my understanding, has been our system.  Lately, however, one of us--and I'm not naming any names here--has not been living up to one's end of the bargain......

Any thoughts, exactly, how one gives mountains a "time out?"